Women’s ACTS Retreat
Registration is now open for the Women’s ACTS Retreat at Camp Eagan, November 14-17, 2024.
Join the women of Saint Mary for Mass, prayers, Adoration, and much more. The cost is $150, but don’t let that stop you from attending—scholarships are available. God is calling you–will you say YES?
Register below or contact Director Rachel Kingsley ([email protected]) with questions.
What Is ACTS?
An ACTS Retreat is a parish-based 4-day, 3-night retreat, which offers parishioners (21 ) an opportunity to experience the love of Jesus Christ. The ACTS Retreat begins Thursday evening and ends with 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at the Church of Saint Mary.
ACTS Retreats are given by parishioners for parishioners, and in this way, serve to build Christian community at the parish level.
While utilizing prayer, service, and teaching, the ACTS Retreat meets people where they are in their spiritual journey and invites them to experience God in a manner that is both personal and communal.
The ACTS Retreat experience is rooted in the Pascal Mystery in that retreatants are invited to reflect on the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout the weekend, retreatants are invited to prayerfully consider how they can respond to God’s love. This invitation is extended through the pillars of the apostolate: Adoration, Community, Theology, and Service.
Why Attend?
Those who attend an ACTS retreat share in an experience that has impacted more than one million lives worldwide since the first retreat in 1987. There are numerous testimonies describing retreatants who were evangelized through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. They witness to becoming better fathers, mothers, husbands, wives and children.
As a result, ACTS is supported by bishops and priests worldwide as a legitimate participant in the Church’s New Evangelization. Through ACTS, the laity respond to their baptismal call and seek to participate in the apostolic mission of the Church to “go and make disciples of all nations.”